STAND. COM. REP. NO. 734

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 479

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 479, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MEMBERSHIP OF A METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to add the director of the authority for rapid/mass transportation to the Metropolitan Planning Organization policy committee.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Committee on Transportation, City and County of Honolulu.

 

     Your Committee finds that mass or rapid transit systems will be critical components of transportation infrastructure for the foreseeable future.  This measure provides that the director of such a system will rightfully participate in the planning and implementation of the Metropolitan Planning Organization's major programs.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 479, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 479, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair